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Not Everyone Wants to Serve Up Justice in Mobster Gotti Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It seems everyone wants justice. It’s just that not everyone wants to be the one to serve it up. The Guardian newspaper of London reports that earlier this week seven jurors in the trial of mobster John Gotti Jr. made a last minute appeal to get off the jury. The judge…
FBI Pays Egyptian Man $250,000 For Arrest Linked to Pilot Radio
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As federal authorities certainly know by now, 2+2 doesn’t always equal 4 in the investigative world. The FBI learned that the hard way in the case of Abdallah Higazy, 38. The FBI this week paid $250,000 to the Egyptian man who was detained after a pilot’s aviation radio was found in…
Feds Bust D.C. Council Chief of Staff on Bribery Charges Related to Taxi Industry
Councilman Jim Graham It doesn’t sound like the guy got enough money to risk career and go to jail. But who can always understand human nature? The FBI used an informant in this case who wore a wire. After taking a $500 bribe in July, council aide Ted Loza explained why he took it: “You…
FBI Says Terror Suspect Shopped For Beauty Products to Make Bombs
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Terror Suspect Indicted in Brooklyn in Plot to Use Bombs
The more that comes out , the more it seems like the real deal. Some say there wasn’t a target date for an attack, but some in law enforcement felt it was much sooner than later. By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and LIZ ROBBINS New York Times NEW YORK –– A Denver airport shuttle bus driver…
Fed Judge: Good Chance Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian Was “Complicit” in Dirty Detective’s Illegal Conduct
The Anthony Pellicano case ruined a lot of people it touched including FBI agent Mark Rossini, who leaked an FBI document in the case (see special reports). Billionaire Kerkorian, like other high-profile people, may have gotten his hands dirty in the whole mess, but nothing will happen to him. By JOHN R. EMSHWILLER Wall Street…
Maryland Teen Pleads Guilty in Fed Court to Possessing Bomb Materials: Map of Presidential Motorcade Found in His Room
In the wake of the murderous rampages at Columbine and Virginia Tech, authorities and law enforcement need to take all these things very seriously. Many teens represent our future. A very few represent our nightmare. By Dan Morse Washington Post Staff Writer A Bethesda teenager pleaded guilty to a felony explosives charge Wednesday, admitting that…
FBI Investigating Whether Census Worker’s Hanging Involved Anti-Govt Sentiments
It’s scary when a census worker might be the target of anti-government sentiment. There’s pockets in America where the hatred for the government runs deep, from farmers to militia members. DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY Associated Press When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural…